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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
Do we not include lsat April in this analysis? Is it not reasonable that it should be the most highly weighted data?
It seems to me that consecutive playoff appearance and/or actually being competitive in playoff series would be the bare minimum to graduate out of the 'bubble' zone? Is Columbus a bubble team, or no? Carolina? Winnipeg? Nashville? It's all semantics...I suppose it depends what you consider the next tiers/categories to be.
I struggle to get to top 10 though. WAS, BOS, TBL, PIT, NYI, STL, COL, VGK, DAL = 9 teams (2 who you could argue against if strictly limited to 2 years) ...I have trouble putting us for sure ahead of the teams I list above...certainly in the mix, though.
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Yeah, that's it. My extrapolation of the last two years to predict the future was to counter the idea that the Flames are a foundering bubble team on the brink of a rebuild. I think they are pretty clearly better than that.